Stupid networks are still the best

David "Stupid Network" Isenberg has a new blog, and is cooking with it. He're's a nice debunking of the idea of price-discrimination in networks:

…service providers need to make their networks 'intelligent' so they can identify users and the applications used.

Just what I want — a network that identifies the application I'm using!

I can imagine
*** ERROR 4XX: UNAPPROVED APPLICATION ***
*** PERMISSION TO USE NETWORK DENIED ***

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(via JoHo the Blog)